This book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred years.  Produced anonymously in 1838,The Tree of Legal Knowledgeis an elaborate visualization in five large colored plates of the law as stated in Sir William Blackstone’sCommentaries on the Laws of England.  Intended as “an assistant for students in the study of law,” the study aid was not a simple diagram but a beautiful tree with each branch and twig labeled with legal terms and concepts from theCommentaries.  Not for law students only, the original was also...